Planetary caves: A solar system view of processes and products

JJ Wynne, JE Mylroie, TN Titus… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first solar system wide compendium of speleogenic processes and products.
An examination of 15 solar system bodies revealed that six cave‐forming processes occur …

Titan as revealed by the Cassini radar

RMC Lopes, SD Wall, C Elachi, SPD Birch… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
Titan was a mostly unknown world prior to the Cassini spacecraft's arrival in July 2004. We
review the major scientific advances made by Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper (RADAR) …

A global geomorphologic map of Saturn's moon Titan

RMC Lopes, MJ Malaska, AM Schoenfeld… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Titan has an active methane-based hydrologic cycle that has shaped a complex geologic
landscape, making its surface one of most geologically diverse in the Solar System. Despite …

Titan: Earth-like on the outside, ocean world on the inside

SM MacKenzie, SPD Birch, S Hörst… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Thanks to the Cassini–Huygens mission, Titan, the pale orange dot of Pioneer and
Voyager encounters, has been revealed to be a dynamic, hydrologically shaped, organic …

Electrification of sand on Titan and its influence on sediment transport

JS Méndez Harper, GD McDonald, J Dufek… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Triboelectric, or frictional, charging is a ubiquitous yet poorly understood phenomenon in
granular flows. Recognized in terrestrial volcanic plumes and sand storms, such …

The role of seasonal sediment transport and sintering in shaping Titan's landscapes: A hypothesis

MGA Lapôtre, MJ Malaska… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Titan is a sedimentary world, with lakes, rivers, canyons, fans, dissected plateaux, and sand
dunes. Sediments on Saturn's moon are thought to largely consist of mechanically weak …

Alluvial fan morphology, distribution and formation on Titan

SPD Birch, AG Hayes, AD Howard, JM Moore… - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
Titan is a hydrologically active world, with dozens of alluvial fans that are evidence of
sediment transport from high to low elevations. However, the distribution and requirements …

Geomorphologic mapping of titan's polar terrains: Constraining surface processes and landscape evolution

SPD Birch, AG Hayes, WE Dietrich, AD Howard… - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a geomorphologic map of Titan's polar terrains. The map was generated from a
combination of Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Imaging Science Subsystem …

Modeling the formation of Menrva impact crater on Titan: Implications for habitability

AP Crósta, EA Silber, RMC Lopes, BC Johnson… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
Titan is unique in the solar system: it is an ocean world, an icy world, an organic world, and
has a dense atmosphere. It is a geologically active world as well, with ongoing exogenic …

Potential caves: Inventory of subsurface access points on the surface of Titan

MJ Malaska, A Schoenfeld, JJ Wynne… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We propose that cycling hydrocarbon rains on Saturn's moon Titan are likely to create
subsurface conduits through dissolution geology of the extensive organic and largely …